Autism News, 2016/04/05

Today is a very big Autism News post! Partly because I procrastinated harder than usual, but also because there is genuinely a lot of autism stuff in the news, especially as we gear up for the Awareness/Acceptance Month of April.

Since everyone is lighting it up different colors for autism right now, we should probably start with Real Social Skills’ post on what autism awareness means to them.

There was a lot in the news lately about euthanasia, murder, death in general, and other medical problems for disabled people. Everything in this section has a TW for these and related topics.

Annalee from The Bias presents The Geek’s Guide to Disability: a good summary both of some recent controversies, and of the Disability 101 background that you might need in order to understand what’s at stake for people here.

Clarissa Krikpe on community living for people with high-support/ developmental disabilities. (Note: There is a lot of parent-centric language in this article, but if you can deal with that, it has some pretty interesting information.)

Karen Hitselberger on why the “How Do You See Me?” campaign doesn’t work

Misc:

Dani Alexis Ryskamp on the importance (or lack of importance) of eye contact